Troy Davis writes:
I have only possessed this tract for a few hours and it has grabbed my heart and my funny bone. I realize if you are a nerdlinger (see photo below) and graduate of Bob Jones University like Hal Webb, the 60s counterculture was a major freakout. Like other out-of-touch fundies (notable examples Vic Lockman and DeVore Walterman, Hal Webb (circa 1926 - 2011). does a unintentionally hilarious take on the long hair craze of the 60s. Webb is the epitome of Susan Sontag's concept of naive camp. Webb thought long hair was part of a Soviet plot to sissify American men.
A revised version of the tract is printed here.
Webb's pic reminds me of the wedding photo of a dweeby Mike Warnke that was instrumental in exposing the self-proclaimed former Satanic priest as a fabulist (see below and more on Warnke here).
The
Museum of Weird and Demented Religious Tracts is a project of Les
Zazous Postmodern Art Galley of Bellaire, Ohio. Read the Welcome
Statement of The Museum here.
Contributions of weird tracts to the museum can be made by mail: send your weird tracts to Les Zazous Postmodern Art Gallery 3475 Guernsey Street, Bellaire, Ohio 43906.
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